Trading women, traded women  : historical scrutiny of gendered trading /
Bakay, Gönül,editor.
Mudure, Mihaela,editor.
Frankfurt a.m. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
2016.
The contributors in this collection focus on women as physical or symbolic traded objects, as subversive women trading in spite of cultural and social stereotypes, and as women empowered in the cultural, political, and social trade.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword (Gönül Bakay / Mihaela Mudure); References; Before and during the Long Eighteenth Century; Captivity Alla Turca: W.A. Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio (Esra Almas); Alla Turca: Representing the Other; W. A. Mozart and The Abduction from the Seraglio; Captive and Captor in dialogue: masters; Captive and Captor in opposition: servants; Conclusion; References; Women Writers and the Evolution of the British Literary Marketplace during the long Eighteenth Century (Begoña Lasa-Alvarez); 1. Introduction; 2. Patronage; 3. Literary circles
4. Dealings with editors and printers5. Conclusions; References; Moll and Roxana: Defoe's Criminals or Female Merchants? (Gönül Bakay); References; Metropolitan High life and Exchange of Knowledge: Women's Patronage and Networks in the Eighteenth-Century England (Burcin Cakir); Montagu as a Businesswoman: Philanthropy and Social Reform; Becoming Public: Friendship, Correspondence and Patronage; References; Beyond the Long Eighteenth Century; Trading Places: Early African American Women's Travel Writing (Oana Cogeanu); References
Intersectional Narratives of Marriage and Slavery in Oroonoko and The Woman of Colour (Başak Demirhan)Oroonoko; The Woman of Colour; References; Performativity, Writing, Narrative Voice and Agency in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa or, The History of a Young Lady (Simla Ayse Dogangun); References; Oppression and Resistance: Woman as an Exchanged Object in Marriage in Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) (Sevinç Eleman Garner); Introduction; Maria, the Wrongs of Woman; Conclusion; References
Trading "several laughable Subjects, droll Figures, and sundry Characters" (Mihaela Irimia)References; The Propagandistic Pill and Its Gilded Coat -- Cicely Mary Hamilton on Women, Marriage and Free Choice (Ileana Oana Macari / Iulia Andreea Milică); Introduction; Franchise, liberal feminism and marriage in Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Cicely Mary Hamilton -- liberal feminist; The Propagandistic Pill: Cicely Mary Hamilton in Marriage as a Trade; The Gilded Coat: Marriage on the Stage; Conclusions; References
Men and Women or the Matrimonial Trade in Eliza Haywood's Novel The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy (Mihaela Mudure)References; Trading Places: Global Feminine Sensibility and the Figure of the Migrant Woman in Contemporary Anglophone Film (Adriana Neagu); References; The Japanese Picture Bride Phenomenon in North America (Oana-Meda Păloșanu); References; From (Self-)trading Moll to Traded Moll, or the Radical Transformation of Moll Flanders in Sentimental Hollywood (Veronica Popescu); Introduction; Defoe's Moll: survival strategies and female empowerment
Pen Densham's Moll, or "a different kettle of feminist fish"
The contributors in this collection focus on women as physical or symbolic traded objects, as subversive women trading in spite of cultural and social stereotypes, and as women empowered in the cultural, political, and social trade.
Includes bibliographical references.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Women
Sex role
Women
Commerce
Sex role in literature.
Captivity in literature.
Human trafficking in literature.
Captivity in literature.
Commerce.
Human trafficking in literature.
Sex role.
Sex role in literature.
Women
Women
Trading Women, Traded Women : A Historical Scrutiny of Gendered Trading
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